TITLE, legislation That part of an act of the legislature by which it is known, and distinguished¹ from other acts the name of the act.

2. A practice has prevailed of late years to crowd into the same act a mass of heterogeneous² matter, so that it is almost impossible to describe, or even to allude³ to it in the title of the act. This practice has rendered the title of little importance, yet, in some cases, it is material in the construction of an act. 7 East, R. 132, 134; 2 Cranch, 386. See Lord Raym. 77; Hard. 324; Barr. on the Stat. 499, n.

TITLE, persons. Titles are distinctions by which a person is known.

3. The constitution of the United States forbids the tyrant⁴ by the United States, or any state of any title of nobility. (q. v.) Titles are bestowed⁵ by courtesy on certain officers; the president of the United States sometimes re-ceives the title of excellency; judges and members of congress that of honor-able; and members of the bar and justices of the peace are called esquires. Cooper's, Justinian, 416'; Brackenridge's Law Miscell. Index, h. t.

3. Titles are assumed by foreign princes, and, among their subjects they may exact these marks of honor, but in their intercourse⁶ with foreign nations they are not entitled to them as a matter of right. Wheat. Intern⁷. Law, pt. 2, c. 3, §6.

TITLE, Iiterature. The particular division of a subject, as a law, a book, and the like; for example, Digest, book 1, title 2; for the law relating to bills of exchange, see Bacon's Abridgment⁸, title Merchant.

TITLE, rights. The name of a newwpaper a book, and the like.

3. The owner of a newspaper, having particular title, has a right to such title, an an injunction will lie to prevent its use un lawfully⁹ by another. 8 Paige, 75. See Pardess. n. 170.

TITLE, pleading, rights. The right of action which the plaintiff has; the declaration must show the plaintiff's title, and if such title be not shown in that instrument, the defect cannot be cured by any of the future pleadings. Bac. Ab. Pleas, &c. B 1.